Tory mentality

I expect most of you have seen the media reports about the Tory backbenchers who are publishing a book, 'Britain Unchained - Global Growth and Prosperity,' on their vision of Britain's problems and how to solve them. According to these intellectual geniuses the British working people are amongst the worst idlers in the world, preferring a lie-in to hard work.

I must commend this work. It must have been incredibly difficult producing a book that required such a vast amount of primary research. I mean, to reach such conclusions, the group must have interviewed literally millions of people. They must have gained first-hand interviews with all the people who prefer a lie-in, or they couldn't possibly know about it could they? I mean, how can you possibly know that people prefer a lie-in if you haven't asked them what their preferences are? They must have personally visited thousands of workplaces to personally witness workers idling and interviewed their managers and employers. This must be a work of paramount academic importance.

I mean, no-one with any self-respect would just publish a book based on suppositions and hypothetical prejudice that condemns and demonises millions of British working people whilst using such obvious garbage to justify policies that are aimed at destroying their terms and conditions of service and reducing them to levels of servitude not witnessed since the industrial revolution, without being absolutely certain, through detailed research of their hypothesis would they?

It would be interesting to discover the background of these intellectual giants, what kind of work they did before they became MP's. I am sure they must have a vast amount of the kind of industrial and business experience that would be necessary to support and produce such observations about the British workforce. I mean you don't just publish a book with such profound and potentially revolutionary conclusions on anecdotal evidence (or even worse, prejudice and a hatred of working people) do you?

I am deeply grateful to such people. As I said when I commented on the article by Simon Calder, I was under the impression that Britain's problems were structural, rooted in governmental policy based on deregulatory practices such as the refusal to regulate financial and commercial malpractice and criminality. I thought the problems lay in economic and financial gangsterism allied to political arrogance and incompetence. I thought the problems lay in a rapacious and totally selfish British elite who were determined to amass fortunes they could never possibly spend at the expense of, and on the backs of, the British working people. I genuinely thought that the same elite were moving inexorably towards sophisticated modern forms of slavery. But I must have been wrong. Our problems are human. They are the fault of a lazy and feckless population of people we call workers who actually spend their whole lives seeking ways of getting money without actually working for it. We are ungrateful for the myriad of opportunities continually being offered to actually work for as long as possible for as little as possible in order to solve the massive problems that we caused in the first place by lying in our beds all day. Enlightenment is a wonderful thing.

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